The last major disaster in Arequipa happened almost exactly 24 years ago, when the banks of the River Chile collapsed bringing flooding to low land areas of the city.
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa was born in Arequipa, Peru's second city, in 1936, and spent his childhood in Bolivia, where his maternal grandfather was the Peruvian consul.
In the southern Peruvian city of Arequipa, landslide caused by torrential rain left thousands of people without electricity and drinker water, at least six people are said to have died. Mattia Cabitza reports.